And we have to admit to being frustrated at all the news going on about what team Sir Alex Ferguson will field against Hull City at the KC stadium next Sunday.

Since that’s just 3 days before the reigning European and World Club Champions will take on Barcelona in the European Champions League, we wouldn’t even expect Ferguson to play his top team on Sunday.

He wants to play his top team on Wednesday night.

After all, that’s why clubs have big squads, especially with Manchester United. They have played 60 games in all competitions this season up till this point, and have only two games left – away to Hull City on Sunday and against Barcelona on Wednesday night. And they will have had a full week to prepare for Hull City.

If Hull manage to win on Sunday, please let’s not say Newcastle’s relegation (we can still survive by beating Villa and Sunderland lose to Chelsea – wouldn’t that be sweet?), is Alex Ferguson’s fault in any way.

It’s embarrassing to even talk about it.

Against Fulham it seemed to be all Howard Webb’s fault – hey – give us a break – please!

What about the 37 league games Newcastle have played this season, and accumulated just 34 points? Wonder if that’s got anything to do with our plight?

This season will be our worst points total ever in the Premier League following last season’s total of 43, which was also the points total of the season before that, for which then manager Glenn Roeder was fired.

And since Glenn left in May, 2007, we’ve had 5 managers, including Chris Hughton. More is not better when appointing managers. 😀

And these are the lowest three points totals in Newcastle’s 16 years in the top league – so we cannot even say it hasn’t been coming.

No, we all know where the responsibility for our demise lies – and here’s a big hint – it’s not at Old Trafford.

That case of being sued is just journalist finding a rule and finds a story. As if the FA would do anything about Fergie anyway.

I think if we win, we are staying up because i doubt man utd and chelsea will both lose in the same week. If we win and we go down at least we can say we did all we could when we had the chance in the last week.

Its obvious whats the problem with the team (and i dont think its the majoirty not caring), that we dont have a cutting edge but i few players on top of their game (Viduka, Martins) and a few rare glimpses of talent (Ryan Taylor scoring a free kick) we can beat Villa.

I sincerely hope that all the comment re NUFC, Boro and the Mackems being ready to sue if SAF didn’t feel a strong side against Hull was just the usual product of some journalists overactive imagination and didn’t have any substance. From all the derision this is being met with by other clubs fans across the country we are becoming even more reviled which is such a shame. We are in the mess we are in because we have not been good enough across the season, it’s pathetic to even think of laying the blame at other peoples’doors when we have turned in so many useless performances. I’m also sick of hearing the players bleeting on about how they will give it their all. They should have been doing this all season and we wouldn’t be in this predicament. Enough talk we want to see them fight to the death for the cause. As much as it pains me to say I just can’t see them taking advantage and sweating blood to beat Villa. Too many of the journey men know this one is coming to an end so their attention will be elsewhere.

As I mentioned in the last blog, I might start a site, with Blog, and pages for PLayer profiles, transfer rumours, galleries and have some writers, you would need to register, but that would be so I could perma ban tools 😉

I would have a small paypal link at the top that would be voluntary and help keep the site ad free

At the risk of being shot down, one of the reasone I think we are where we are is something we did back in September. Those who have seen my posts in the past know I’m no fan of Ashley, and I was very happy for fans to protest, butthe mistake I think we made was doing it inside the ground during a game.

If that protest hadnt taken place when we were playing Hull, maybe and it’s a big maybe, they would not have beat us. If that were the case, Hull would not have been above us now.

Shame we hadn’t waited until the game had finished and then done it. Mind you in saying that, the way the lads have been playing, it might have made no difference. Lets just hope they CAN do it on Sunday

The reason we are in this mess has nothing to do with the effort of the players, anyone who watches them regularly knows that this hasn’t been through want of trying. We just quite simply have a small and unbalanced squad, a problem that should have been rectified by the chairman putting a bit faith in managers who know a far lot more about football than him. Cheers Mike.

Macas – Agreed to a point. But I think it’s more down to the quality of the players. You could get 11 people from here trying their hardest and busting a gut for 90 minutes, but we wouldn’t be any good.

Micky – I agree, should have included that in my post as well. They have worked hard (a good example being Gutierrez) but we just arent good enough, especially in midfield. I guess I just get annoyed with people questioning the effort and commitment of the players, as I think we have the best bunch of players in ages in terms of their team spirit and prefessionalism.

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The cancer spread in the bones, but after having a number of CATscans last Friday the cancer has been stabilized and as of April 24th, 2018 it has not spread further.

There is no cure for Stage 4 cancer so I will continue to have CATscans and bone scans about every four months to check on the cancer.

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